OK, a lot of people got a nice surprise when they saw some bullshit questions that some Excel freaks would not know, let alone some year 9 people. First, after I've done some Googling, I will give you guys the answer to the VLOOKUP question. First, cast your eyes to the right of the spreadsheet given (I know you don't have it, but imagine). Now look at the lower block of stuff. Then on the left column find "2", then move 2 cells to the right and that's the answer. I got some help from Google (Result). I fully scribbled on my question paper "WTF IS A VLOOKUP" and the person sitting behind me suggested "And then the teacher's like 'what's a WTF?'". Another question expects that our brain has a built in SGML (HTML) rendering engine. That's complete trash. I think approximately 1 person in this world probably has a SGML rendering engine built into their brain. BTW, the answer to question 1 is "field". The last question, the numbers are in descending order. If you picked one of the ones where the numbers weren't in order: CONGRATULATIONS! You have won the "CryptWizard's complete retard that doesn't know the meaning of sort award" for today. For the normalizing (normilising if you want to act aussie) a database question, it was the "students" table that could've been improved by adding a foreign key (Wikipedia it) to the "attendance" table. You probably have to be like some professional database designer to know that. Also, the algorithm on the last page is a recursive (Wikipedia it) algoritm. You can see it by how it calls it self.
In other news, the 2594/8594 was driven by a drunken retarded lunatic who reacted positively when called a "fucking faggot" (note the alliteration). Also I found a Pentium 1 computer in front of my house. I took the CPU out of it.
If there's a computer competition question you want me to answer, comment describing the question. Thanks. Comment please!
First, I couldn't post yesterday I had a severe headache and therefore could not utilise as much of my brain as I usually do.
OK, let's say that you are Vince Graham, Chief Executive Officer of Rail Corporation. Also, let's assume (yes, it is an hypothetical) that the amount of money + criticism (to put it nicely) you get is inversely proportional to the amount of trains running. How much trains would you have running? Here's a graph to help you (we'll assume it's linear to make this easier). Available in PNG and SVG format.
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Leave your answer by commenting. You can say about where, take the image and make a mark on it, whatever. Just comment!
. In practice, I think it will be even better, since it frees up our time, whether it be to get fresh air and exercise all the way to playing nerdy computer games. Whether you're a teacher or a student, or just some random guy with something that even remotely makes sense to say, please comment using the link below.
The election is tomorrow. Now of course, the moment I got home, I turned on 2GB.
Anyway, take a look at these two websites: http://www.morrisiemma.com.au/ and http://www.debnamrecord.com/. Please note that both sites are owned by the NSW ALP, and both sites are filled with steaming mounds of bullshit. I'm going to (try my best) not be biased here, but from using all sources available to me, it seems that Morris Iemma is more full of shit than Peter Debnam. I would also like you to know that Morris Iemma can't pronounce his opposition's name properly. He pronounces it as Peter Deb-eh-nem. Now, if there were a list of top #10 easiest to pronounce names in the world, I would rank Peter Debnam somewhere in the regions of #3, after John Smith and Mark Latham. Now, if Morris Iemma can't pronounce the world's 3rd easiest name, I don't know how he can manage to run a whole state.
Now, there's 16 hours to the election and 2GB tells me that Morris Iemma is nervous (who wouldn't be when you tell that many lies) while Peter Debnam is confident (contrast with nervous). If you have any common sense, I urge you to leave your ballot paper blank when you go to the polls tomorrow. If you want to do one better, nominate yourself for the next election, then vote for yourself, then if you do get in (which is unlikely, since the majority of the voting population will swallow bullshit as truth), then you can act on your own beliefs.
Next problem: how to we prevent the majority of the voting population from swallowing bullshit as truth and voting based on it. As you can see, there are 2 factors: the voting population and the bullshit. Now sure, the politicans could spend more money and churn out more bullshit to counter the other party's bullshit, but that's way too much trouble. I want to point out the only good point of the US: non compulsory voting. That's how we can change the other factor: the voting population. Based on a sample survey done personally by me: 90% of the voting population couldn't give less of a f*** about poiltics and will, once again, make decisions based on bullshit. So instead of forcing uninformed people to vote, why not just let them not have to vote. Then maybe parliament might finally have more non-retarded people.
I don't know how many people out there have watched the Election Debate on Friday 16/02/2006 7:30PM on ABC. Well I did, so I guess that makes me a nerd and a political freak. If you want to watch it (trust me it's good and it's only 45 minutes long), visit http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2007/default.htm. Scroll down to "Leader's Debate". Remember that both sides bullshit a lot, so exercise common sense while watching it.
In conclusion, I hope that both sides end up with exactly half of the seats. Please comment.
I am listening to 2GB right now as whoever is talking about Kevin Rudd's 4.7 billion dollar broadband proposal. Whoever called some guy who said what's the fuss about people getting faster iPod downloads a dopey bonehead. He is talking to the Daily Terrorgraph's Business Commentator (note that The Daily Terrorgraph is a shit newspaper that exaggerates things more than Today Tonight). He is pointing out that a fast broadband network is different to building a new road is that it is an investment that generate's income (reasonable point). He also stated that the plan would have to involve the Telstra network, so how other telcos could access the network. Now, he said that other countries are getting 3, 4, 5x our speeds. Now, let's take the thereotical average speed of ADSL2+: 17 mbps. That would mean that other countries are getting 85mbps home broadband. First of all, I want to point out that that is the most steaming piece of bullshit I have heard in the whole day. Now I don't know how the hell we can achieve those speeds short of relaying our entire copper network, which by my estimates will cost at least 47 billion dollars, 10x the amount that Kevin Rudd suggested.
Now for me to separate the facts from bullshit once again. First of all, Mr. Phillip Clark from 2GB, fast broadband is about faster iPod downloads. How the hell can businesses use 85mbps on sending a few emails? This guy obviously thinks that big business communications is about downloading large files. NOTE: I have forwarded this blog post to 2GB.
